Re: Filling old holes and touching up Gelcoat

RAeschlima@aol.com
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 21:48:17 EDT


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In a message dated 4/23/99 1:09:40 AM Pacific Daylight Time, JBlumhorst
writes:

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Hi Ralph,

What kind of "glass" are you talking about? I've wiped old *gelcoat* down
with lacquer thinner many times and never noticed any problem. I'm not
talking about soaking it with lacquer thinner for hours, just wiping it with
a damp cloth.

Should I be worrying about it? I'm serious about the question.

Regards,
Judy B. >>

Judy,

Could be that gell coat resists it but when I was working on my forward hatch
I used some laquer thinner to remove some unwanted two part epoxy (clean up
with laquer thinner) and it got on the non gel coated glass, it all went
mushy, freaked me out. Later, after it had all dried etc. I gave it a coat
of polyester resen and it is alright now. It was a small spot, but I'm quite
paranoid about laquer thinner around polyester resin anymore.

Ralph Aeschliman
HMS-18 #67 Moby Duck
Flagstaff, AZ